| Show Winters GrIlling Warmer I Wo have a ture proof the avenge cold of the winter Is not so great nor extended ocr so longs period as it was twenty years ago h J remarked ahardrvaru Ucoler who 1J been in the business tlucelEM it is that wu Co not PUt hnl ill manj pairs of skates 03 In my earlier uar < It wont do to attribute the decrease to the fmhloiof rollerskaU log nor to 8IIyilid UIO young people and adults have given up the notion gliding over the Ice If we had the ice thisfifnbrnlion would be aa quick lo take to it as their pred < ces tofu were Carry your mind lack twenty years end you will recall that tin re were a dozen Ice rinks In and about the city the largest and beet which was that in old End wick park Men rented the grounds flooded them put up rotauranU and dre singrooms and then made money kaiuro there was rarely u a winter when thelcc was not good for week after wctk Climatic con ditions i have changed so that the man that thoulj I go into 1fta now would be bankrolled freezing weather dont lutt long enough to Insure any rofit Corlhocnturc Ve hardly sell one pair of skates in the holiday seven now where we sold adcnuin the old days of frozen ttreams and ponds1 JvitfatkpAia IntJttrcrL |
